Academic Challenge

Our rigorous academic curriculum is designed to foster a sense of responsibility, critical thinking, global awareness and civic engagement among our students. In the classroom, most will study the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma, a prestigious international pre-university diploma that aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect. Motivated students can also opt for the challenge of a UWC Project-Based Diploma, an innovative programme that allows you to choose a research project to pursue during your two years of study.

Academic Challenge

Our rigorous academic curriculum is designed to foster a sense of responsibility, critical thinking, global awareness and civic engagement among our students. In the classroom, most will study the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma, a prestigious international pre-university diploma that aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect. Motivated students can also opt for the challenge of a UWC Project-Based Diploma, an innovative programme that allows you to choose a research project to pursue during your two years of study.

The aim of all IB programmes is to develop internationally minded people who, recognizing their common humanity and shared guardianship of the planet, help to create a better and more peaceful world.

UWC Mahindra College was among the first schools to offer the IB in India and we have been offering the diploma since our beginning. All faculty attend IB workshops and many are examiners in their disciplines. Visitors and parents are astounded by the maturity and higher level thinking that are exhibited by our students.

You will be asked to challenge your teachers in class and they will expect a very high degree of involvement from you. We expect you to do your very best, to learn for the love of learning and to focus on knowledge acquisition and critical thinking- not on your grades! This attitude has shown, during the past 16 years, to be an excellent way of ensuring that students develop outstanding intellectual capacities and, we continue to be among the top performing IB schools in Asia and prized students for universities around the world.

UWC Project Based Diploma:
Motivated students can also opt for the challenge of a UWC Project-Based Diploma, an innovative programme that allows you to choose a research project to pursue during your two years of study.

Learning Support:
The UWC Mahindra College IB Diploma is a demanding academic programme and it takes most students some time to adjust to this new method of teaching and learning…

Additional Academic Requirements & Opportunities

We are committed to providing the best academic opportunities for our students. Beyond the traditional academic curriculum, all first year students must also attend two seminars:

This Is India

Global Affairs

In addition, some teachers will offer Evening Seminars. These change every year but in the past, have included Global Literature, History of Music, Facilitation Training, Peace and Conflict, -Isms Classes. Thursday nights are reserved for the Faculty Lecture Series when distinguished guests- whether academics, parents, teachers offer a lecture or debate on an interesting subject. We have many guest lecturers who come to campus to address our students on a variety of topics or to offer workshops. These are great opportunities for students to tie their academic learning with on-going research and connect with practitioners in many fields.

Finally, students wishing to challenge themselves further and having the time to do so are offered the Cambridge Pre-University Global Perspectives course.